The overall response from those who witnessed V Day this year was that it was even better than last year. Stronger performances, improved writing, and overall bums on seats that both moved and didn’t move depending on the mood. We sold well over 300 tickets this year, in addition to those we gave away to partners and invitees. And while not everyone managed to stomach what was on offer, the freedom that comes with a Censor Board …

This year too, our V Day production promises to push the boundaries and bring the violence and humiliation we face as women and girls right to your doorstep. The Colombo production on 31st March 2015 @ Barefoot Cafe will be predominantly in English, interspersed with Sinhala and Tamil performances by some of Colombo’s leading actors on stage. In August Grassrooted for the first time takes V Day on the road to Kandy, and then later …

Call on RCEP countries to protect public health and access to medicines as 7th Round of negotiations gets underway in Thailand this week.
Bangkok, 9 February 2015 –
As negotiators from 16 countries in the Asia-Pacific region, including all ASEAN countries, China and India, meet in Thailand this week for the 7th round of negotiations of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (RCEP), groups fighting for access to affordable health care for all see their hopes threatened …

Shear Madness began in December 2013 with a discussion at Grassrooted about how far people would go to raise funds.
We remembered four young Scots in Pune who chose to go bald to raise funds for people living with HIV and awareness about the issues they face in India. Shortly after, inspired by the bravery of the Scottish girls, a group of twenty female students at Mahindra International College, near Pune, decided to similarly sacrifice their hair …

‘V Day 2015: Our Stories’ builds on the successes and experience of The Grassrooted Trust who have been performing V Day: Writings to End Violence Against Women since 2011 in Sri Lanka.
In 2015 The Grassrooted Trust together with Uber Minds is putting together a wider partnership of agencies working with survivors of violence, the arts and media to bring us stories from across Sri Lanka in all three languages (Tamil, Sinhala & English) with the purpose …

E. Ross Albers
Closing session speech at AIDS 2014
AEST, Friday 25 July, 2014
Ironically for a talk at an AIDS conference I want to start off quite far from HIV, which is in my view not the real issue that binds the key affected populations together. HIV is a symptom and not necessarily the cause of what really brings us, as people who inject drugs, together with sex workers, gay men and other men who have sex …

Cape Town/Geneva/Melbourne, 18 July 2014: Access to testing, counselling, treatment and care, as well as a lack of knowledge of one’s HIV status are the biggest barriers to accessing life-saving treatment and care, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and the Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP+) highlighted today, in the lead-up to the 20th International AIDS Conference starting on Sunday in Melbourne.
Globally, an estimated 35.3 million people …

The following article conveys extremely disheartening news. A cure for HIV, and/or more comprehensive prevention measures are often not discussed in our culture. The information is out there, but few feel the need to access this knowledge. Grassrooted believes in accurate and comprehensive approaches to knowledge sharing, and that is why we feel we should share this to underpin how many miles we have to go before we sleep.

(London, 26 June 2014) According to the United Nations, the 26th June is ‘International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking’. For communities of people who use drugs, it is a day to reflect on the heavy toll that the war on drugs has had on our health and the full realization of our human rights.
Perhaps the greatest health threat posed by the war on drugs and by the systemic criminalization, exclusion and marginalization of …

New coalition calls for urgent response to expand treatment and care for adolescents living with HIV

The World Health Organization released a report last week that reveals HIV is the second leading cause of death amongst adolescents aged 10-19 globally, and the number one cause in Africa.[1] Adolescents are increasingly dying at a time when HIV-related deaths are decreasing for all other age groups.
In light of this stark statistic, a new coalition was formed to catalyze immediate …

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Welcome to Grassrooted, home of The Grassrooted Trust. We work primarily in the fields of HIV, Drugs, Gender, and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights.

We believe in an integrated approach that prevents new HIV infections, ensures that people enjoy their sexual and reproductive rights, and that they live full and productive lives regardless of HIV status, gender, sexuality or the fact that they use drugs.

We believe in accurate and comprehensive information as opposed to moral and values based education that may limit the knowledge that is shared.

We believe that grassroots initiatives can be effective and lifechanging with the right capacity building and empowerment.

We believe in ALL our fundamental human rights, however unnecessary or inconvenient they may appear.

We believe in people.

The Grassrooted Trust is set up to focus on innovative programming that will contribute to improving the lives of people living with HIV, people who use drugs, people of diverse gender identities and sexual orientations, and anyone marginalized or forbidden to engage with issues around sex, drugs and culture.

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